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Sunday, 30 June 2013

Comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl is like comparing apples and oranges, Fukushima is so much bigger and different then Chernobyl there is no comparison. Some poeple can onley understand how bad fukushima is if its is compared to the biggest nuclear disaster in history chernobyl that happened in 1986 in ukrane.

So according to this Chernobyl book there has been almost 1,000,000 deaths as a result of chernobyl nuclear radiation and 7,000,000 people are negatively effected which are mostly children. Chernobyl contaminated 77,000 square miles with its 185 TONS of nuclear CORE MATERIAL from its ONE REACTOR that exploded and burned for ONLY 10 to 14 DAYS by till it was stopped by lead and sand and finally sealed in a metal sarcophagus 10 to 11 months after. This is one isotope onlyhttps://www.facebook.com/photo.phpfbid=10150446572078245&set=a.10150402912628245.399839.619858244&type=3&theater

Chernobyl had no spent fuel. But what’s really crazy is r3 in fukushima is MOX plutonium that is 2,000,000 times more toxic then the core material that was in Chernobyl. All in all Fukushima is so much bigger and deadlier then what most people can even imagine. As more time goes on you will see that this will have direr consequence that far surpass that of Chernobyl’s. This is only a fraction of the information out there and if any body studied the fukushima facts would know this. Its been said by many head officials and scientists that this is far far worse then Chernobyl.

Peace love and happiness my friends ... so lets not let nuclear power take it from us as it has to millions already. We must unite to end nuclear power and ensure nothing like these long lived man made nuclear disasters ever happen again. Time is ticking as everyday more nuclear waste is generated which can not co exists with life and have no right being on our precious earth. The only way to do this is end your enslavement and there powerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93CDU361eMI&feature=youtu.be

The implications are sadly quashed by lack of sensationalism, horror and immediacy of action.

But, to be fair, Chernobyl was a 'Cold War' incident, shrouded in the historical secrecy of the time.

We do know, they threw everything and everyone into the effort to contain a global disaster, as evidence by their collateral loss of equipment, land and lives.

Step into Fukushima.

Not more than 2 hours drive from the Capital of Japan, Tokyo, lies the now entirely destroyed carcass of not 1 but 4 decimated nuclear power plants, with 2 more on the same plant. Not only that, but Radiation releases go on unabated with the lack of knowledge of where the melt cores are. Indeed, the serious situation is uncounted for, due to the lack of any equipment that can go close enough to assess, or abate, the on going crisis.

Back to Belarus, where the children, as indicated in the video, are becoming sicker and sicker. Indeed, the entire landscape was wiped clean of human habitation, live-stock slaughtered and no-go zones enforced. The land is dead land, for unknown years, decades, indeed centuries. We know not.

So in light of the evidence from the no longer so secretive event at Chernobyl, the scientific understandings (if only scant) of Fukushima, what can we conjecture?

The fact that T.E.P.C.O (site overseer) and the Japanese Government have not only been shown to lie, obfuscate and conjecture, have done nothing to quell growing concern that the situation is uncontrolled, and indeed beyond the scope of our currently known sciences.

Why then, is an entire populous left in both social, and media isolation?

Is it the Global fear that this is real, happening and acknowledged as unabated and more sadly, unfix-able?

What can we say of all our advancements, that we allow an entire populations demise, in favor of ignorance that which we cannot fix?

Moreover, this extends to the entire Globe; if not today, eventually.

Radiation releases into the environment are now confirmed by the lead entities as not only flowing from 6 Meters from our Global oceans and into the Ground water, but more likely than not into the oceans themselves.

At what point you may be left asking is, what is the point, but to turn a blind eye.

Thursday, 27 June 2013

TEPCO has announce a total rejection of a plan by the government arbitration board to compensate victims from Iitate Village. The government declared the area off limits due to unsafe levels of radiation. TEPCO has claimed that “science” does not support this, rejecting both the arbitration board plan and the government classification of the village....

...The only proposal that passed was appointing new board members...

TEPCO has also attempted to dismiss a lawsuit brought by US sailors over their exposure due to TEPCO’s lying about the early stages of the disaster at the plant. The government is also considering suing TEPCO to force them to pay for decontamination work. TEPCO’s previous legal tricks include trying to avoid a lawsuit by a nearby golf course by claiming they didn’t “own” the radiation that contaminated the course.

The Mainichi has uncovered secret government documents that prove the US and deputy DOE secretary Danial Poneman put intense pressure on Japan to continue the plutonium fuel MOX program in Japan. The documents clearly show the US is pressuring Japan to continue with the MOX fuel cycle program, something the US has failed to do themselves. The US has claimed the concern to be that the plutonium would be diverted to military use. Japan has a massive amount of spent nuclear fuel, more than they could ever realistically use through reprocessing into MOX. The US stance also ignores the prospect of vitrification, a technology that encases the material in a glass substance rendering it unusable for weapons.

The US is still struggling to create an operating vitrification plant at the Hanford nuclear site but France has two functioning vitrification plants.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

At the annual shareholders’ meeting, the first since the Japanese government acquired control, of TEPCO on Wednesday in downtown Tokyo, demands of the electric utility were hurled towards executives. Shareholders have been unsatisfied with TEPCO’s actions since the 2011 disaster in Fukushima.

It’s been two years since the meltdown in Fukushima, but the cleaning up the nuclear reactors has made little progress. Radiation threats due to radioactive substance leaks also keep residents from returning to their homes. With such state, many people expect to never be able to return to their livelihood. Another stockholder, Ryuko Tachibana from Namie, reminded TEPCO of what they went through. “Please think of our suffering, our uncertainty, our fear of living with radiation,” she said.

Utilities unreceptive to shareholders' proposals to phase out nuclear power

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Shareholders arrive at a meeting site as protesters stand with anti-nuclear placards in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on the morning of June 26. (Mainichi)

Proposals to phase out nuclear power were rejected at general shareholders' meetings held at nine of the country's 10 utilities on June 26.

With Japan's new nuclear standards set to take effect July 8, and the government's enthusiasm for resuming operations of idled nuclear reactors around the country, Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Kansai Electric Power Co., Shikoku Electric Power Co. And Kyushu Electric Power Co. have also voiced a willingness to restart their reactors at an early date.

As Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) shareholders arrived at a gymnasium in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward where the shareholders' meeting for the operator of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was to take place, they were welcomed by anti-nuclear activists holding placards .

"Abandonment of nuclear power is the will of the people. Since there have been changes in the (board) membership, I have some hope," said 60-year-old Yui Kimura, who heads the civic group Nuclear Phase-Out TEPCO Shareholder's Movement.

Individual stockholder Kenji Furuhashi, 34, said he took the day off of work to participate in the meeting. "I want to feel the passion of people who are against nuclear power, and listen to the voices of people from the disaster areas," he said. "I want the company to move in the direction of eliminating nuclear power."

Inside, TEPCO President Naomi Hirose opened the meeting at 10 am by reiterating his intention to devote energy to bringing the disaster under control and rebuilding Fukushima Prefecture.

"We will continue to deal responsibly in compensating victims of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant accident and the long-term decommissioning process of the reactors," he said.

Meanwhile, outside the site of Kansai Electric's shareholders' meeting, anti-nuclear civic groups held banners calling for "non-nuclear management," and passed out flyers to shareholders walking in demanding that Oi Nuclear Power Plant be stopped and that operations at Takahama Nuclear Power Plant remain halted.

We should not conclude on the result of thyroid examination as nothing to do with Fukushima fallout. Normally 1 to 2 in 1 million children develop thyroid cancer. However in Chernobyl, 4 children developed thyroid cancer in the following year. Also we should be well aware that cancer spread into lung in one in six cases in Chernobyl. Nuclear disaster is a national crisis. We haven’t learned a lesson from the Chernobyl disaster and been neglecting the danger of Nuclear energy. The Japanese Government should support the Fukushima disaster victims financially by giving them more regular and full examination and evacuating them into safer area.

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Kyodo

TEPCO. has seen a rise in the level of radioactive tritium in
seawater within the harbor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant.
A sample collected Friday contained around 1,100 becquerels of
tritium per liter, the highest level detected in seawater since the
nuclear crisis at the plant started in March 2011, the utility said
Monday.
An official of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said groundwater
containing radioactive substances may be seeping into the harbor from
the plant site and there is a need to carry out a careful
investigation because the data collected so far are limited.
The sample with the highest tritium concentration was collected
near a water intake on the east side of the reactor 1 turbine
building. Its level was more than double that of a sample taken on
June 10 in the same area.

A Japanese prime ministerial envoy secretly promised to the United
States that Japan would resume its controversial "pluthermal"
program, using light-water reactors to burn plutonium, according to
documents obtained by the Mainichi.

The secret promise was made by Hiroshi Ogushi, then parliamentary
secretary of the Cabinet Office, to Daniel Poneman, deputy secretary
of the U.S. Department of Energy, during Ogushi's visit to the United
States on behalf of then Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in September
last year.

The revelation comes as Japan's pluthermal project remains
suspended in the wake of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant
disaster due to safety concerns. The fact that a Japanese official
promised to the U.S. to implement such a controversial project
without a prior explanation to the Japanese public is expected to
stir up controversy.

According to the official documents obtained by the Mainichi, upon
being pressed to reduce the amount of plutonium in Japan that could
be diverted to military use, Ogushi told Poneman that Japan would
burn plutonium in plutonium-thermal (pluthermal) reactors. The then
ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was in the final stages of
formulating its nuclear energy policy at the time.

Under the pluthermal plan, spent nuclear fuel generated in
light-water reactors is reprocessed to extract plutonium, which is
then mixed with uranium to create mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for use in
power generation. However, many experts have raised questions about
the program, citing its high costs and the risks posed by the fuel's
comparatively low melting point and the decreased effectiveness of
control rods. The plan to burn plutonium in conventional reactors was
introduced in 2009 because there were no prospects for putting the
Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor into practical use.

The documents that the Mainichi obtained are a compilation of
cables recording the Ogushi-Poneman talks in the U.S. on Sept. 12
last year. During the meeting, Ogushi explained that Japan would
inject all available policy resources to break away from nuclear
power generation in the 2030s, that it would steadfastly promote the
nuclear fuel cycle program in the medium and long term, and that
Japan would end research on the Monju reactor after confirming its
achievements. The explanation was in accordance with the government's
Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment, which was
finalized on Sept. 14.

The promotion of a nuclear fuel cycle implies extraction of
plutonium from spent nuclear fuel at the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
in Aomori Prefecture. But Japan's "zero nuclear power"
policy and the suspension of the Monju reactor could leave the nation
without a facility to burn plutonium. Poneman expressed concern that
this would create a situation in which plutonium could be diverted to
military use. In response, Ogushi promised the continuation of the
pluthermal program to burn plutonium in light-water reactors.

During an interview with the Mainichi, Ogushi declined to reveal
the details of the meeting, saying, "I can't disclose whom I met
from a diplomatic standpoint." He added that he didn't remember
the pluthermal issue.
The Innovative Strategy for Energy and the Environment states that
"nuclear reactors whose safety has been confirmed will be
utilized," but contains no reference to pluthermal plans.

Yukio Edano, a House of Representatives legislator who was serving
as economy, trade and industry minister at the time, defended Ogushi,
saying Japan had made no distinction between pluthermal and
conventional reactors that were to be operated. "There were no
such micro-level talks in the Energy and Environment Council. I would
have given the same answer (if I had visited the U.S.)," he
said.

The current administration led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also
upholds a policy to resume the pluthermal program, according to
documents obtained by the Mainichi that were produced by the Ministry
of Economy, Trade and Industry on March 1 and submitted to minister
Toshimitsu Motegi. The documents clearly state that the government
will "promote the use of MOX fuel in light-water reactors
(pluthermal) after reprocessing (nuclear fuel) at the Rokkasho
Reprocessing Plant." Based on the content of the documents,
Motegi stated at a lower house Committee on Economy, Trade and
Industry session on March 22, "We will steadily promote the
pluthermal plans."

Despite the country not knowing which nuclear reactors will be
authorized to resume operations following the July implementation of
the new regulatory standards, the government has been pushing ahead
with its plans to restart the controversial pluthermal program.

"It is abnormal for sure," said one official with the
Agency for Natural Resources and Energy. "But it can't be helped
if the Rokkasho plant is to be put into operation."

Monday, 24 June 2013

On
June 6, 2013 fishermen were asking Tepco to scrap its plan to release
No. 1 plant water into Pacific, Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture
have voiced opposition to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s plan to
release groundwater from its crippled nuclear power plant into the
Pacific. Some expressed concern Friday about the harmful rumors that
might be triggered by such a discharge of water from the Fukushima
No. 1 plant, while others said they don’t trust the utility.
Previous releases of radioactive water led to widespread
contamination of the surrounding sea and a halt in local fishing
activities.

On
June 19, 2013 Tepco released the nuclides analysis result of
radioactive materials in the reactor1 ~ 4 water intake.

Of
course not telling us anything about any Strontium as the Sr-89/90
data of reactor1~4 water intake has been “under analysis” since
2012 However, they haven’t published the readings of Strontium-89
and Strontium-90. The oldest sampling date was 12/10/2012. It’s
been over 6 months but the readings xere still “under analysis”.

On 6/19/2013,
Tepco announced they measured 500,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium and
1,000,000 Bq/m3 of Sr-90 from the groundwater taken from the east
side of reactor2 turbine building. The sample was taken on 5/24/2013.The radiation
level in seawater doesn’t decrease. In order to investigate it,
Tepco drilled 3 observation holes on the east side of the reactor1~4
turbine buildings.As a
result, significantly high level of radioactive water Tritium and
Strontium-90 were detected. Tepco hasn’t published Sr-90 readings
after 5/31/2013 as it is again “under analysis”.Tepco states it
is due to the contaminated water leakage out to the screen pump room
of reactor2, which happened on 4/2/2013. In order to investigate the
spread of the contaminated water, Tepco drilled 4 more observation
holes. Tepco is planning to improve the ground by injecting chemical
grout and fill the voids of crushed stone layer foundation. http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushim-anp/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130619_03-e.pdfhttp://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130619_04-e.pdf

On
June 21, 2013 Tepco released its Nuclide Analysis Results of Fish and
Shellfish (In the Port of Fukushima Daiichi NPS)

On
6/22/2013, Tepco announced they measured 450,000,000 Bq/m3 of tritium
from an observation hole beside Fukushima nuclear plant port. The
sampling date was 6/14/2013.It
is assumed to be located on the east side of reactor2, where they
have measured 500,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium since last December. The
Tritium level is still significantly high.The
data of Strontium-90 is still under analysis as usual.Strangely,
they don’t analyze the samples for Tritium and Strontium-90 in the
North side of reactor5 ~ 6 water outlet and the south water outlet of
the plant. The reason is not announced.On
June 24, 2013 Tepco annonced us that “Tritium is travelling
underground with groundwater” Tepco found
significantly high level of Tritium in groundwater and in seawater.About 500,000,000
Bq/m3 of Tritium detected on the east side of reactor2, Tepco
analyzed the cause and mechanism of how it is spreading as below.When
leakage from the reactor 2 water intake section occurred in April
2011, a part of leaked water permeated and spread into the north-side
ground through the reactor 2 power cable conduit, and remains under
the ground.While
cesium has been absorbed onto the soil, tritium has been moved by
groundwater.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130624_04-j.pdfhttp://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2013/images/handouts_130619_03-e.pdf

They
further annonced us that the Tritium level in seawater spiked over
double within 2 weeks,

Having
measured 500,000,000 Bq/m3 of Tritium from groundwater, Tepco
conducted the tritium analysis of seawater of Fukushima nuclear plant
port.According
to their press release on 6/24/2013, Tritium level increased to be
over double within 2 weeks. It is assumed that Tritium is
significantly leaking into the sea for some reason.1) Sample :
SeawaterSampling
location : North of water intake of reactor 1 ~ 46/21/2013
: 1,100,000 Bq/m36/10/2013
: 500,000 Bq/m32) Sample :
SeawaterSampling
location : In front of the sea bank (cf, Fukushima plant tide
embankment is still in the temporary state “EXIF of the picture is
removed” 6/21/2013 :
910,000 Bq/m36/14/2013
: 600,000 Bq/m3Tepco
stating they are going to continue to analyze seawater, but it
doesn’t stop the sea contamination anyway.http://www.tepco.co.jp/cc/press/2013/1228476_5117.htmlFinally
on June 24, 2013 2013 via TEPCO Press Releases: “Tritium Density
Result of Water Quality Survey inside the port of Fukushima Daiichi
NPS”, where they admit Strontium presence...”We
have conducted water quality survey of the Tritium density in the
seawater inside the port, of which sample taken on June 21, since a
high concentration of Tritium and Strontium have been detected at the
observation hole at the east side of the Unit 1-4 Turbine Buildings.
According to the results shown as below, a rising trend of Tritium
was observed.<North side of the Unit 1-4 intakes>-Sample as of June 21: 1,100 Bq/L-Sample as of June 10: 500
Bq/L (previously announced)<Front of Unit 1/2 bank
protection>-Sample as of June 21: 910 Bq/L-Sample as of
June 14: 600 Bq/L (previously announced)We will take samples of
the seawater and measure the concentration again.There were no
changes in the all beta concentration of the seawater. “According
to the results shown as above, a rising trend of Tritium was
observed. -Sample
as of June http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2013/1228483_5130.html

Finally
Tepco is admitting increasing ongoing leaks to the sea.Tritium
leaking into the port has increased between June 10 and June 24, the
level near unit 1—4 has more than doubled, Tepco admitting that
those levels have been existing since 2011 and that they are on the
increase after some decrease.Strontium and all beta have elevated and
existing since 20111, and are continuing to be high.These two
elevated levels indicate ongoing leaking into the sea. These readings
are outside the walls and blocking materials put in place at the
intakes.Tepco claiming that the cesium in the water is low but that
the beta emitters like strontium are significant, Tepco is not
clarifying at what depth they tested the water to get these readings.
Soils readings would be useful as well, as previously Tepco concreted
the floor of the port though it did not decreased the water levels
according to these new reports,